By Octavus Roy Cohen
Note: First released in 1951
For simply the fraction of an speedy, shock held me immobile. Then I acquired slugged by means of a carload of biology. I forgot i used to be a cop, forgot that this was once a woman from one other league, forgot i used to be presupposed to be trying to find her lacking sister—missing or murdered—forgot every little thing other than that i used to be a guy and he or she was once a woman.
Detective Danny O'Leary is at the case to resolve a stressful murder... one in all his so much demanding circumstances up to now. Set in Los Feliz, close to the Hollywood Hills, O'Leary is up opposed to a deadly choice of shady characters and lumps of money—some soiled, a few no longer. He's shrewdpermanent and savvy, yet O'Leary has one very monstrous weakness—dames! And he's surrounded by means of them! Will he lose his head... and his center? Or will he remedy the homicide prior to extra blood is shed? writer Octavus Roy Cohen brings us a colourful, attractive and suspenseful tale.
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